On 01 Sep 2009, at 16:53, Flammarion wrote:
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> On 1 Sep, 15:50, Quentin Anciaux <allco....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>> 2009/9/1 Flammarion <peterdjo....domain.name.hidden>:
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>>> On 1 Sep, 15:00, David Nyman <david.ny....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 1 Sep, 13:08, Flammarion <peterdjo....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
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>>>>>> That is the point. I should say that my starting position
>>>>>> before encountering Bruno's views was against the tenability of
>>>>>> CTM on
>>>>>> the basis of any consistent notion of physical process. Bruno
>>>>>> hasn't
>>>>>> yet persuaded me that an explicitly non-computational theory of
>>>>>> mind
>>>>>> on some such basis is actually untenable. But he has awakened
>>>>>> me to
>>>>>> the reverse realisation that a non-materialist world-view can
>>>>>> tenably
>>>>>> be founded on CTM
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>>>>> coupled with Platonism.
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>>>> With respect, Peter, you continue to miss the point. What Bruno
>>>> has
>>>> demonstrated is that CTM as a mind-body theory (which is what UDA-8
>>>> shows it must be) makes no ontological commitment *by its very
>>>> virtuality*. Or rather, any such commitment is shown to be
>>>> vacuous.
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>>> There's got to be somehting at the bottom of the stack. Bruno
>>> wants to substitue matetr with Platonia as the substrate.
>>> If there is nothing at the bottom
>>> of the stack, there are no virtualisations running higher up.
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>> There's no bottom. Why would you need one ? It's turtle all the way
>> down !
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> That's another version of Platonia and therefore still an ontological
> commitment.
No, it is the same arithmetical truth, but from the first person
perspective. For this you need step seven + step eight.
You have not yet answer to the question about step seven I ask
yesterday.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Tue Sep 01 2009 - 17:34:37 PDT